[EDMTunes] Eric Prydz Drops ‘Call on Me’ After 21 Years at Austin Show

Eric Prydz fans, pinch yourselves to believe, or slap yourselves if you still don’t! The unthinkable has happened! Eric Prydz’ has finally dropped ‘Call on Me’ after 21 years! The 2004 international hit catapulted Eric to the path of initial global superstardom. It has been completely abandoned by the Swedish dance music titan for more than two decades, till 03/15/2025 at The Concourse Project.

The ’20 Years of Pryda‘ show in Austin, Texas has witnessed a history of sorts. Ibiza 2004 was the last time it graced the tracklist of the progressive house legend. There have been instances post-2004 admitted by Eric himself where the audience came to his shows just for the song. The restlessness and anticipation of those still didn’t convince him to drop ‘Call on Me’ at those shows. It was dead and buried and no one ever presumed in their wildest dreams he would play it again.

‘Call on Me’ is Eric’s own 2004 take sampling Steve Winwood’s 1982 classic ‘Valerie’. The music video for the classic was the one that made more waves, to the point it caught the attention of then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The signs given by Prydz of keeping himself away from the iconic track was to avoid the tag of a ‘one hit wonder’. The progressive house legend obviously went to attain much bigger accolades in career. Celebrating 20 years of his label Pryda at The Concourse Project show was deemed apt by Prydz to resurrect the classic. And we are definitely not complaining!

For me, I’m super happy about “Call On Me” the single, and what happened to it, and that it became super successful and all that. I don’t take pride in the track, because Steve Winwood wrote the melodies in it. I added some beats, I changed the arrangement around, and somehow it connected with the audience. I’m happy it happened, but at the time I was on a different musical journey. This was just some side project that I did. It took me a half an hour to make, just a fun thing on the side. I already had my path with my labels and Pryda and the whole progressive house underground stuff and the techno with CirezD that I was doing. Then all of a sudden this happened, and I got a bunch of new Eric Prydz “Call On Me” fans that started turning up to the shows. I would open up with a John Mull record. They’re like, “What?”

ERIC PRYDZ IN A 2016 INTERVIEW WITH ZANE LOWE

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